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Area
5,920 sf
The new addition features large glass windows and two hipped-roof bays that identify each cottage and respond to the historic context. A broad stone terrace creates outdoor living space and connects the addition to the former estate’s expansive landscape.
It provides space for a modern kitchen, half bath, media room, and first floor primary bedroom suite for each residence.
Our design preserves the original twin cottage, expanding it with a sensitive one-story addition.
Horace Trumbauer, who designed the main Ardrossan Farms Mansion, determined that the small cottages on the property would be designed in the Cotswold Style. This is one of several twin cottages on the farm.
Ardrossan Twins
Villanova, Pennsylvania
Inspired by the rolling Ardrossan farmlands and distinct Cotswold style architecture, the owner purchased this historic twin worker’s cottage (c. 1919) as both an investment property and to save an endangered building. Our design rehabilitates, modernizes, and expands the cottage, reinterpreting it as a model for twenty-first century living that preserves its original program and its quintessential character.
The original two-story twin cottage was designed with local mica schist stone laid in a rubble pattern with steeply pitched half hipped roofs, a prominent chimney, overhanging eaves, and an eclectic window pattern reflecting the estate’s architectural style. Fondly named the ‘Ardrossan Twins’, the cottages’ entrance and front façade faced the estate rather than the street.